Managing grid congestion in the Netherlands with local control strategies:

A guide to turn grid challenges into an advantage for your business

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The acceleration of the energy transition is putting significant pressure on our electricity infrastructure. Grid capacity is now the main bottleneck for new and expanding energy projects. 

When you need more capacity to grow your business or connect a new asset, you may face long waiting lists. But instead of simply waiting, you can also work with the capacity you already have by creating flexibility and responding directly to peak moments on the grid.

This whitepaper explains how asset owners, producers, and project developers can successfully operate within these physical grid constraints.

Table of contents

• Introduction
  • Current status of the Dutch energy industry and what can be done

• Understanding grid constraints in the Netherlands
  • Difference between demand congestion (Afnamecongestie) and feed-in congestion (Invoedcongestie)
  • Overcoming congestion by moving towards flexibility

• Regulatory compliance: Realtime Interface in the Netherlands
  • The grid operator endpoint
  • The customer endpoint

• Local control strategies for congestion management
  • Static and dynamic limitations

• Detailed control loops and applications
  • Grid guard
  • Peak shaving
  • Hybrid control

• Generating revenue from flexibility
  • Participate in energy and flexibility markets via your trader

• Security by design for critical infrastructure

• Getting started with local control